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Enormous Crime : The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia by Bill Hendon and Elizabeth Stewart (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312371268
ISBN-139780312371265
eBay Product ID (ePID)60202866
Product Key Features
Book TitleEnormous Crime : the Definitive Account of American Pows Abandoned in Southeast Asia
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicMilitary / Vietnam War, Military / General
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorBill Hendon, Elizabeth Stewart
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight34.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-014865
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal959.704/37
Synopsis"The dramatic history of living American soldiers left in Vietnam, and the first full account of the circumstances that left them there" "An Enormous Crime" is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, "An Enormous Crime "brilliantly exposes the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973 and what these men have endured since. Despite hundreds of postwar sightings and intelligence reports telling of Americans being held captive throughout Vietnam and Laos, Washington did nothing. And despite numerous secret military signals and codes sent from the desperate POWs themselves, the Pentagon did not act. Even in 1988, a U.S. spy satellite passing over Sam Neua Province, Laos, spotted the twelve-foot-tall letters "USA" and immediately beneath them a huge, highly classified Vietnam War-era USAF/USN Escape & Evasion code in a rice paddy in a narrow mountain valley. The letters "USA" appeared to have been dug out of the ground, while the code appeared to have been fashioned from rice straw (see jacket photograph). Tragically, the brave men who constructed these codes have not yet come home. Nor have any of the other American POWs who the postwar intelligence shows have laid down similar codes, secret messages, and secret authenticators in rice paddies and fields and garden plots and along trails in both Laos and Vietnam. "An Enormous Crime" is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. It is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our modern history: ugly, harrowing, and true. From the Bay of Pigs, where John and Robert Kennedy struck a deal with Fidel Castro that led to freedom for the Bay of Pigs prisoners, to the Paris Peace Accords, in which the authors argue Kissinger and Nixon sold American soldiers down the river for political gain, to a continued reluctance to revisit the possibility of reclaiming any men who might still survive, we have a story untold for decades. And with "An Enormous Crime" we have for the first time a comprehensive history of America's leaders in their worst hour; of life-and-death decision making based on politics, not intelligence; and of men lost to their families and the country they serve, betrayed by their own leaders.
LC Classification NumberDS559.4
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- 07 Feb, 2017
Outstandingly informative. Thank you Rep. Hendon for all of your exhaustive efforts.
Being a Vietnam veteran, it very much removed my doubts about the fact that our politicians, most of them, turned their backs on our POW's and left them to die in captivity. It brings discredit to every President since Richard Nixon. When "Operation Homecoming" occurred and the planes brought our POW's home from Hanoi, I felt that there were many more that were being held in Laos, Cambodia, China, North Vietnam and Russia. According to this book, over 1,000. I observed Russian and Chinese advisers on the ground in the DMZ. Our politicians would pay the ransom for a few civilians, but would not take care of the brave people that answered their Country's call to duty. That being said, I knew the risk when I enlisted and volunteered to go to Viet Nam. Henry Kissinger was the one enjoying the junkets to Paris at the tax payer's expense and all the time was selling out our military. Interestingly enough, with the absurd rules of engagement, we never lost a major battle. The politicians and the people back home made us lose the war. And I'm still bitter at age 72, but I would do it over again and accept that risk. USMC.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Oct, 2019
The title says it all. Those good men still await a propper rescue.
This book provides one source for tens of thousands of hours of research on this subject and is a must read for any serious understanding of how our government betrayed and abandoned our military personnel and many civilian contractors. If the government can do this to them, then they can do it to any of us.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 06 Mar, 2019
Read it learn what really went on in south east Asia
Great book its a must read for anyone who was in Viet Nam.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Nov, 2019
Great book
InterestingVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
